On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 06:44:42PM +0200, Mateusz Kwiatkowski wrote:

Hi Maxime,

W dniu 5.09.2022 o 15:37, Maxime Ripard pisze:

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+    vfp = vfp_min + (porches_rem / 2);
+    vbp = porches - vfp;

Relative position of the vertical sync within the VBI effectively moves the
image up and down. Adding that (porches_rem / 2) moves the image up off center
by that many pixels. I'd keep the VFP always at minimum to keep the image
centered.

And you would increase the back porch only then?

Well, increasing vbp only gives a centered image with the default 480i/576i
resolutions. However, only ever changing vbp will cause the image to be always
at the bottom of the screen when the active line count is decreased (e.g.
setting the resolution to 720x480 but for 50Hz "PAL" - like many game consoles
did back in the day).

I believe that the perfect solution would:

- Use the canonical / standard-defined blanking line counts for the standard
  vertical resolutions (480/486/576)
- Increase vfp and vbp from there by the same number if a smaller number of
  active lines is specified, so that the resulting image is centered
- Likewise, decrease vfp and vbp by the same number if the active line number
  is larger and there is still leeway (this should allow for seamless handling
  of 480i vs. 486i for 60 Hz "NTSC")

I'm not sure I understand how that's any different than the code you
initially commented on.

I would start by taking the entire blanking area, remove the sync
period. We only have the two porches now, and I'm starting from the
minimum, adding as many pixels in both (unless it's not an even number,
in which case the backporch will have the extra pixel).

Isn't it the same thing?

- If even more active lines are specified, once the limit for vfp is hit, then
  decrease vbp only - the resulting image will definitely be off-center, but
  there's no other way

Unless you only want me to consider the front porch maximum?

Maxime